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- Acquisition and re-integration with the Greater Bolsa Chica ecosystem
- Restoration of the wetlands, functioning as a natural treatment system
- Filtration of urban runoff that would otherwise flow into Huntington
Harbour
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- Increased traffic problems
- Increased water pollution
- Increased flood threat
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- Graham Street already congested at peak periods
- Congestion will be worsened by:
- Marine View gym (in progress)
- Parkside (proposed)
- Hearthside/Fieldstone (proposed)
- Rare extreme congestion caused by problems on Pacific Coast Highway
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- Wintersburg Channel already carries nasty urban runoff into Huntington
Harbour
- Huntington Harbour currently suffers from areas of chronic high
pollution and closures
- Parkside will create additional unfiltered urban runoff in the
Wintersburg Channel
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- 303(d) pollutant limits will be established in the 2006-2010 timeframe,
according to the Santa Ana RWQCB
- Adding Parkside pollution today will make it harder and more expensive
to meet these limits tomorrow
- HB will be stuck paying the clean-up bill, not Shea!
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- Parkside adds to runoff in Slater Channel, so the pump station will be
expanded…
- …but the County will impose throttle-back limits to protect the
Wintersburg Channel from overflowing
- Therefore if the Wintersburg is full, the new Slater pumps won’t
operate, thus increasing the risk of a Slater Channel flood
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- Parkside runoff north of the Wintersburg will be sent south to the
Slater Channel
- Existing Slater neighborhoods will be at risk during El Nino-class
storms at Wintersburg high tide
- Shifting the risk burden to other neighborhoods is bad public policy!
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- Too many negative impacts on existing neighborhoods
- Insufficient mitigations to address those impacts
- A failure of vision not in keeping with the forward-looking city that
Huntington Beach ought to be!
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